Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom, a new musical filled with traditional and original Gospel and Freedom songs, tells the moving and intimate true story of Lynda Blackmon Lowery, the youngest person to walk all the way from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, on the Voting Rights March in 1965. Jailed nine times before her 15th birthday, Lynda, and her friends and neighbors, fought alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to secure the right to vote for African Americans. Ally Sheedy (The Breakfast Club, High Art, Psych), adapted the award-winning memoir by Lynda Blackmon Lowery (Dial Press,...
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom
Theatrical Production
ManagersGary McAvay
Territory
USA
Press Resources
“Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom speaks to the very heart and soul of our nation. It is the art of storytelling at its best. . . . Audiences of every age will be uplifted and inspired.”
David Brown, The Harmony Project, Lincoln Theatre, Columbus, OH 2020
“A powerful experience.”
National Public Radio
“...What a cast! All seven [actors] with outrageously beautiful voices sing until we are completely immersed in the history of Bloody Sunday and the Edmund Pettus Bridge. . . . [A] timely and prayerfully crafted production which restores the soul.”
Ebele Oseye, Black Star News, 2020
“Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom was one of
the most powerful pieces of theatre I’ve ever experienced. It not only brought
the house down, but brought everyone to tears.”
Rev. Ellen Robison, The Theatre at The Riverside Church (NYC), 2019, 2020